Meet Our Faculty

Areas of Specialization

• French Literature
• Classical tragedy

Interests

Research Interests: 17th century French drama, Greek mythology and tragedy, French cinema (Poetic Realism, Gangster Movies, Transcendentalism)

Teaching Interests: Early modern French literature, modern French narratives of disenchantment, language acquisition (Spanish and French), creative writing, French gangster movies

Other Interests: Latin American short story, New Journalism

Biography

Ph.D., Rutgers University
M.A. in French Literature, Rutgers University
M.A. in Hispanic Literature, Villanova University
B.A. in Journalism, Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia

Dr. Franco’s research examines the notion of heroism in 17th century French drama, with Greek mythology and Classical tragedy as points of reference. Dr. Franco’s dissertation, entitled "Corneille: a tragedy of the image," focuses on the works of Pierre Corneille, and challenges the myth of a dazzling cornelian hero by showing his struggle to obtain recognition. An article derived from the last chapter of Dr. Franco’s dissertation was published in The French Review. A native Spanish speaker, Dr. Franco has extensively taught both language and Literature classes in Spanish, French and English. He has presented his work at the annual conference of SE17 (Sociéte d’Études du dix-septième siècle français) and at the University of Ghent, Belgium. Other honors include a Mellon Grant to conduct research at the Maison Jean Vilar in Avignon as well as a full scholarship by the Institut d’Avignon during the most important theater festival in Europe. Dr. Franco also received a fellowship to participate in the MLA Connected Academics program in NYC, and an exchange award to spend a full year at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He joined the faculty at Simon’s Rock in 2019.

Highlights

PUBLICATIONS

• “Suréna: l’héroïsme est-il possible en dehors de la représentation?” The French Review, Vol. 92.4.
• “Desaparecido.” Short Story. El Espectador. Bogotá, Colombia, March 2012.

Conference Papers

• “Agir pour se faire aimer et aimer pour empêcher d’agir: effets et fonctions de l’amour dans la logique héroïque cornélienne.” University of Gent, L’ Amour et l’amitié au Grand Siècle, May 10, 2019.
• “Sertorius: le cas du héros dépassé par son image.” SE 17 (Société d’Etudes du 17e siècle), Mills College-Stanford University, CA, November 3, 2017.

Areas of Specialization

• Latin American literature
• Queer studies

Interests

Research Interest: Gender and sexuality in Latin America, Latin American popular culture

Teaching Interest: Applied linguistics, creative writing, Hispanic studies

Biography

PhD, University of Pittsburgh
MA, with honors, Université de Montréal

Dr. Giraldo’s research explores queer artistic expressions in Latin America, and offers a set of theoretical tools based on local contexts in order to create a productive dialogue between European/North American and Latin American sexual and gender categories. His teaching and research interests focus on LGBTQ artistic expressions, gender and sexuality rights issues in Latin America, as well as popular culture, literature, creative writing, and indigenous cosmologies. Dr. Giraldo worked as coordinator at the Centre de ressources de l’espagnol (Spanish Resources Center) at the Université de Montréal, and as the editorial assistant of the literary review Variaciones Borges at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Giraldo received the Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, and the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a project in which he analyzed the conservative articulation of subversive discourse in Fernando Vallejo’s novel Our Lady of the Assassins. Other honors include a Doctoral Research Scholarship from the Fonds Québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) and a honorific mention from the Société des écrivains de la Mauricie. He has presented at the Queering Paradigms Queer Studies International Conference, the Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana, and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Congress. Dr. Giraldo joined the faculty at Simon’s Rock in 2016.

Areas of Specialization

• Contemporary African American and Caribbean literature
• Black feminist theory
• Postcolonial criticism

Interests

Research Interests: The historical and political legacies of the plantation in the Americas; the Caribbean and its place in a global modernity; slavery in the Americas

Other Interests: Festival practices throughout the African Diaspora, intersectionality, queer theory

Biography

PhD, New York University
MA, New York University
BA, Howard University

Dr. McMorris has been an early college educator for nearly a decade. She began her work as a member of the faculty in Literature at Bard High School Early College in Queens, New York. She was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy and was Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon’s Rock from 2016–2018. Dr. McMorris is an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking and is the Dean of Studies at Simon’s Rock.

Areas of Specialization

• Comparative Literature
• Latin American and Iberian Studies

Interests

Research Interests: 20th- and 21st-century Latin American narrative; comparative literary journalism

Teaching Interests: Latin American detective fiction, novellas, graphic novel, and nonfiction; Hispanophone and Francophone film

Other Interests: Vocal and instrumental music; Argentine and Cuban composers

Favorite/Regular Courses Offered

• SPAN 204 Intermediate Spanish I: Perspectivas de América Latina
• SPAN 205 Intermediate Spanish II: España y sus culturas
• SPAN 212 Love and Other Demons: Latin American Novella
• SPAN 213 Passion, Trickery, and Revenge: Latin American Detective Fiction

Biography

MA, PhD, Brandeis University
BM, Oberlin Conservatory
BA, Oberlin College

Dr. Roe's areas of specialty include: Latin America narrative, critical theory, francophone and Spanish-language film, and the adaptation of stories across artistic and linguistic boundaries. Her recent work considers literary journalism from a comparative, international perspective. Her work has appeared in the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies, and Literary Journalism Studies. Dr. Roe has also taught at Brandeis University and Boston College and is a former staff editor for the Atlantic Monthly. She has been teaching at Bard College at Simon’s Rock since 1999.

Highlights

January-in-Sevilla: Simon’s Rock Study Trip to Spain, 2015

Areas of Specialization

• Geography
• Political ecology
• China
• Critical spatial theory
• Nature conservation
• Landscape ecology
• Biodiversity
• Property and land tenure

Interests

Research Interests: Rural land use and biodiversity conservation; animal geographies; sacred landscapes; historical geography/environmental history, property, possession, and personhood; Sino-Tibetan Borderlands; Southern China-subtropical cultural ecologies

Teaching Interests: Political ecology; philosophies and religions of East Asia; geography of nature conservation; critical spatial theory; property, possession, and personhood

Other Interests: Backcountry skiing, freestyle cross-country ("skate") skiing, trekking, swimming, ultimate frisbee, soccer, kayaking, running, mountain biking, wildlife observation

Biography

PhD & MS, Louisiana State University
BA, Wesleyan University

Dr. Coggins's research focuses on rural China, political ecology, biodiversity, sacred landscapes, protected area management, globalization, and property/possession. He has led students and faculty on eight trips to China since 1999, six of which have involved intensive field research. He is the co-editor (with Emily Yeh) of Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes of the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (University of Washington, 2014), and the author of The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China (University of Hawaii Press, 2003) (runner-up for the 2003 Julian Steward Award for best book in environmental/ecological anthropology and nominated for the Kiriyama Prize in nonfiction). He is also the co-author of The Primates of China: Biogeography and Conservation Status – Past, Present, and Future (China Forestry Publishing House, 2002). He has published refereed articles in many geography, environment, and Asia-related books and periodicals. Since 2011, he has led teams engaged in a multi-year, mixed methods, field and archival research project on the fengshui forests of southern and central China. His work on the history of humans and tigers in China has been featured on BBC 4’s Natural Histories. Dr. Coggins has been teaching at Simon’s Rock since 1998.

Highlights

Recent Media Coverage and Outreach

• Elected as a member of the ASIANetwork Speakers Bureau. ASIANetwork is a consortium of 170 colleges and universities with programs or other curricular components in Asian Studies.
• chinadialogue “China's Fengshui Forests”
• BBC 4 Natural Histories - TIGER
• Fengshuilin: the Hidden Sacred Forests of China (Short Documentary on Fengshui Forest Research)
• Academic Minute  “China's Fengshui Forests”

Books

• Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands. Edited with Emily Ting Yeh. Seattle: U. of Washington Press, 2014).
• The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China (U. of Hawaii Press, 2003) (runner-up for the 2003 Julian Steward Award for best book in environmental/ ecological anthropology).
• Co-author of The Primates of China: Biogeography and Conservation Status – Past, Present, and Future, published by China Forestry Publishing House, 2002.

Current Research

2011-2018: With funding from ASIANetwork, The American Philosophical Society, and the Luce Foundation LIASE (Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment), Dr. Coggins has led teams of faculty and students from Simon's Rock, Bard, Bard affiliates, and other colleges and universities in the US, China, and Japan in a multi-year field research project on the sociocultural and ecological characteristics, past and present, of southern China's village fengshui forests. This is the first systematic multi-province research on these community-protected sacred groves, which are found in 10-14 provinces in central and southern China. Their publications are among the first English language works on this subject. The study aims to explain how and why the groves have been systematically protected for centuries; to map their present regional distribution and analyze their ecological effects, particularly in terms of biodiversity and local water quality; and to learn what local people, government, and other conservation stakeholders are doing to protect this remarkable legacy. LIASE funding also supports an annual student research conference on Asia and the environment, held each April at Bard College, and has provided a forum for students from Simon's Rock, Bard, and other institutions to share their research results in a supportive environment.

Selected Book Chapters and Articles

• "Fengshui Forests as A Socio-natural Reservoir in the Face of Climate Change and Environmental Transformation," Asia Pacific Perspectives 15, no. 2 (2018).
• "Fengshui forests and village landscapes in China: Geographic extent, socioecological significance, and conservation prospects," Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 31 (April 2018): 79-92.
• "Conserving China’s Biological Diversity: National Plans, Transnational Projects, Local and Regional Challenges" in The Routledge Handbook of China's Environmental Policy. Ed by Eva Sternberg. NY: Routledge. (2017).
• "Commentary Response to ‘Harmonious spaces: the influence of Feng Shui on urban form and design’, by Manuela Madeddu and Xiaoqing Zhang," Journal of Urban Design 22, no. 6 (2017): 729-31.
• "Village Fengshui Forests of Jiangxi Province" in Forests and Humankind 2014 (12) (Chinese/English).
• "Animate Landscapes: Nature Conservation and the Production of Agropastoral Sacred Space in Shangrila" with Gesang Zeren, in Emily Yeh and Chris Coggins (eds), 2014, Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
• "'When the Land is Excellent: Village Fengshui Forests and the Nature of Lineage, Polity, and Vitality in Southern China" in J. Miller, D. Yu and P. van der Veer (eds.), 2014, Religious Diversity and Ecological Sustainability in the People’s Republic of China. New York: Routledge. 
• "'We Work the Black Seam Together' Ritual Politics and the Educative Ethic of Tending Delirium" (with P. Mabry), in Educating Outside the Lines: Bard College at Simon’s Rock on ‘a new Pedagogy’ for the Twenty-first Century, 2011.
• "Village Fengshui Forests of Southern China – Culture History and Conservation Status" with Joelle Chevrier, Maeve Dwyer, Lindsey Longway, Michael Xu, Peter Tiso, and Zhen Li. in ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts Volume 19, No 2, 2012.
• "The Fate of the ‘Lord of a Hundred Beasts’ in the Wilds of Southern China," in R. Tilson and P. Nyhus (ed.), 2010, Tigers of the World: The Science, Politics, and Conservation of Panthera tigris. New York: Elsevier Press. View PDF
• Refereed journal articles in: Asian Geographer, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, Geographical Review, Journal of Cultural Geography, Policy Matters, Proceedings of New England – St. Lawrence Valley

Areas of Specialization

• Africa (both North and sub Saharan Africa)
• Conflict, displacement, and resettlement
• Material culture studies

Interests

Research Interests: Africa (historic and contemporary); conflict, displacement, and resettlement; migration studies; material culture; life cycle rituals and ceremony; gender; Islam

Teaching Interests: Life histories; urban anthropology; anthropology of religion; material culture; conflict, displacement, and resettlement; food studies; apocalypticism and dystopianism; comparative religions

Other Interests: Intellectual history of anthropology; art history; film

Favorite/Regular Courses Offered

• ANTH 100 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 223 Life Histories
• ANTH 227 Gender in Africa
• ANTH 232 City Life: Anthropology, People, and Place at Home and Abroad
• ANTH 328 Preternatural Predilections: Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Possession in Cross-Cultural Perspective
• ANTH330 Anthropological Perspectives on Dispossession and Displacement
• ANTH 317 Subjects and Objects: Engagements with Material Culture
• ANTH 331 Anthropological Encounters with Rapture and Rupture

Biography

MA & PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington
BA, Drew University

Kathryn Boswell's recent publications include “Establishing ‘Stable Beginnings’ through Alternative Channels: Voluntary Association Membership, Marriage, and Women’s Socio-Economic Welfare in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso” in Africa Today and “Accumulation, War, and Dispossession: Burkinabé Repatriates’ Problematic Reincorporation in the Homeland” in NEAA Bulletin. She has previously taught at Indiana University, Richmond and served as an OSI-Africa Doctoral Scholar; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. She has been the recipient of several Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships as well as two-time IIE Fulbright awardee to Côte d’Ivoire (1999-2000) and Burkina Faso (2004-2005). Dr. Boswell has presented at the African Studies Association, American Anthropological Association, Northeastern Anthropological Association, among others. She has been teaching at Simon’s Rock since 2008.

Highlights

• “Accumulation, War, and Dispossession” in Northeastern Anthropological Bulletin, 2011
• “Establishing ‘Stable Beginnings’ through Alternative Channels: Voluntary Association Membership, Marriage, and Women”s Socioeconomic Welfare in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso,” in Africa Today 62(3)

Areas of Specialization

• Social psychology
• Interpersonal conflict and conflict resolution
• Psychology of the self
• Research methods and statistics
• Road rage

Interests

Teaching Interests: 

• Introduction to Psychology
• Conflict and Conflict Resolution
• Developmental Psychology
• Research Methods
• Political Psychology

Other Interests: Student Outcomes, Human Research Reviews

Biography

B.A., Ph.D., Boston College

Dr. O'Dwyer has had articles published in the British Journal of Social Psychology, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and the Peabody Journal of Education. She has presented at many professional conferences, including the American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and many of her students have presented their research at national and regional conferences. Dr. O'Dwyer previously taught at Boston College and UMass Boston and served as President of New England Psychological Association. She has been teaching at Simon’s Rock since 1997 and served as Simon’s Rock’s associate dean of academic affairs from 2008-2010 and academic dean from 2010-2016.

Areas of Specialization

• Labor studies
• Race-gender inequality
• Globalization

Biography

PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
BA, Bowdoin College

Francisca Oyogoa is assistant professor in Sociology and African American Studies at Bard College at Simon's Rock. Her research focuses on the intersection of racial, ethnic, gender, and national hierarchies in the workplace. She is also the recipient of numerous research grants and an award for excellence in teaching. Dr. Oyogoa has been teaching at Simon’s Rock since 2009.

Areas of Specialization

• Environmental Studies
• Landscape Ecology
• Aquatic Ecology
• Bioinformatics

Interests

Research Interests: Malacology; limnology; political ecology; climate change

Favorite/Regular Courses Offered

• Introduction to Environmental Studies
• Introduction to Bioinformatics
• Limnology
• Agroecology
• Sweet History: The science and story of maple sugaring
• Principles of Environmental Management

Biography

PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Department of Environmental Conservation)
MSES, Bard College
BA, Bard College at Simon's Rock

Dr. Coote is the Coordinator of Sustainability Programming and a lecturer in Environmental Studies. He runs the Tropical Ecology and Sustainability program in Montserrat, and is the director of the Berkshire Environmental Research Center based on the Simon's Rock campus. His research focuses on landscape ecology and genetics with a particular focus on aquatic ecology and molluscs. His teaching draws from several disciplines including fisheries, limnology, agroecology, political ecology, landscape ecology and genetics. Dr. Coote has been the recipient of the Hudson River Foundation’s Polgar Fellowship as well as the New York National Sea Grant Fellowship. Before coming to Simon's Rock he spent a decade in the fish farming industry and taught at Waynesburg University and California University of Pennsylvania. Current research includes work on the freshwater and marine snails of the Caribbean island of Montserrat as well as the Massachusetts endangered snail Marstonia lustrica. Dr. Coote has been teaching at Simon's Rock since 2000.

Areas of Specialization

• Mathematical optimization and scientific computing
• Applied linear algebra

Interests

Research Interest: pattern recognition, online learning, prediction

Other Interests: Good posture, reading the classics, and mismatched socks

Biography

PhD in applied mathematics, North Carolina State University
BA in English, North Carolina Wesleyan College

Dr. Landi's graduate research focus was the Nonnegative Matrix Factorization, an unsupervised machine learning technique commonly used in data reduction and feature selection applications. Her future research interests include optimization and analysis of big data from a mathematical and an industrial point of view. She taught mathematics for several years at North Carolina State University. Dr. Landi has taught at Simon's Rock since 2015.

Areas of Specialization

• Harmonic analysis
• Mathematical finance
• Mathematical macro economics

Interests

Research Interests: Non-Markovian models in finance; stochastic macro-economic models in the direction of Farjoun and Machover’s work.

Other Interests: Rowing, bridge, ukulele, wood.

Favorite/Regular Course Offered

Algebra II and Trigonometry

Biography

PhD in Mathematics, Washington University
BS in Mathematics, Brooklyn College

Dr. Putz has taught at CUNY, Columbia University, and the Belfer Graduate School of Science at Yeshiva University, with research supported by the National Science Foundation; and was a National Science Foundation Faculty Fellow in the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia. Dr. Putz’s work has been published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, and joint publications with A. Koranyi and A. Kaplan. He has also worked at JCPenney on network optimization, and in quantitative financial analysis at Solomon Brothers and Sanford Bernstein. Dr. Putz has taught at Simon’s Rock since 2016.

Areas of Specialization

• Flamenco Dance
• Dance Composition
• Dance Fundamentals

Interests

Research Interests: Choreography, dance pedagogy, flamenco history

Teaching Interests: Flamenco dance, dance composition, dance technique

Other Interests: Children's dance, arts in education

Favorite/Regular Courses Offered

• Flamenco Dance
• Dance Composition
• Dance Concert Workshop
• Ballet
• Modern Dance
• Dance Fundamentals

Biography

Madrid, Spain: Research-based studies in Flamenco dance and pedagogy
BA, Bard College

Kati Garcia-Renart’s performance experience includes various venues in Spain and throughout the United States. She is currently the director of the Kaatsbaan Academy of Dance in Tivoli, NY, and is a long-time faculty member of Kaatsbaan’s Extreme Ballet (summer intensive course). Kati Garcia-Renart was previously a visiting professor at Bard College. She has been teaching at Simon’s Rock since 2010.

Areas of Specialization

Piano performance, early twentieth century American music

Biography

Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance, City University of New York Graduate Center
Master of Music in piano performance, Mannes College The New School For Music
BA, Bard College
AA, Bard College at Simon's Rock

American pianist Manon Hutton-DeWys has long been earning praise and recognition for her performances of classical and modern music. In Musical America, Christian Carey wrote: “Hutton-DeWys did an admirable job creating legato lyricism in a solo line that resides amidst a tremendously active accompaniment. Her sensitive dynamic shadings and subtle use of rubato demonstrated an artist possessing a great deal of promise.” Manon has performed in some of classical music’s best-known venues, including Weill and Zankel Halls at Carnegie Hall, and the Salle Cortot at the École Normale de Musique in Paris. She has also appeared at Symphony Space, Bargemusic, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Steinway Hall, the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Northeastern and Tufts Universities, and The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, home to radio station WNYC. Manon holds degrees from the City University of New York Graduate Center, Mannes College of Music, Bard College, and Bard College at Simon’s Rock. Her research, for which she received a 2017 Elebash Research Grant, focuses on early twentieth-century American music. She formerly served on the faculty of Lehman College and Greenwich House Music School and on the Executive Board of the Piano Teachers’ Congress of New York. A native of New York’s beautiful Hudson River Valley, Manon started teaching at Simon’s Rock in 2017.

Highlights

• Website
• ManonHD

 

Areas of Specialization

• Directing
• Playwriting
• Theater history
• Viewpoints training
• Dramatic literature
• Producing
• Shakespeare

Interests

Research Interests: Shakespeare, feminist theater, playwriting (particularly by women), relationship between theater and film, actor training, political theater

Teaching Interests: Viewpoints training, ensemble work/devising, playwriting, teaching directing, Shakespeare, teaching designer/director relationship

Other Interests: Musical theater, theater design, theater as activism

Favorite/Regular Courses Offered

• Viewpoints I and II
• Shakespearean Scene Study for Actors and Directors
• Playwriting
• Directing
• Directors and Designers in Collaboration

Biography

MFA, Tulane University
BA with honors, Louisiana State University

Ms. Michel’s interest in theater is inherently political and her work as a theater director has always focused on the sociological and political roles that theater plays in a community. Before coming to Simon’s Rock, Ms. Michel was the artistic director of the Shakespeare Festival at Tulane (SFT), a professional theater in New Orleans, for ten years. At SFT she directed over 14 of Shakespeare’s plays. She also directed and produced new plays by Louisiana playwrights. At SFT she launched a three-part educational initiative, “Shakespeare Alive,” which exposed over 100,000 Louisiana schoolchildren to professional productions of Shakespeare’s work over ten years. She also developed training institutes for LA middle and high school teachers to support better teaching of Shakespeare’s plays. Before SFT, she was the artistic director of the Directors Project in New York City, where she ran an extensive directing program for early career directors. She has been teaching at Simon’s Rock since 2006.

Highlights

Directing

• As a freelance director, Ms. Michel has directed in theaters all over the country including Capital Repertory Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, the Hangar Theatre, the Actors Theater of Louisville, and Williamstown Theatre Festival.
• Finalist and participant in the Drama League of New York’s Directors Project
• Curator director with the New York Theatre Workshop
• Participant in the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab
• Artistic director of the Directors Project in New York City, where she ran an extensive directing program for early career directors

Awards

• Boris Segal Fellowship at Williamstown Theatre Festival
• Directors Project Fall Program Fellow
• CODOFIL Scholarships for study in both Quebec, Canada, and in Montpellier, France

Areas of Specialization

• Jazz
• Composition
• Ethnomusicology
• Animation
• Guitar performance

Interests

Research Interests: New computer-based art forms and their relationship with traditional art forms, including implications for representing and defending cultural diversity

Teaching Interests: Jazz, music theory, interactive arts, world music

Other Interests: Chinese language

Biography

PhD, University of Maryland at Baltimore
MM, Howard University
BA, Towson State University

Dr. Myers is a composer, performer, media developer, and author, and has a broad range of activities that reflect his expanding interests and areas of professional engagement. He often performs as a guitarist, either as a soloist or in ensembles, playing jazz and Western classical music. Dr. Myers has been teaching at Simon's Rock since 1987.

Highlights

• His extended composition for chorus, narrator, and instrumental ensemble; "The West Lake Cycle" was awarded the Chorus America/ASCAP Alice Parker Award in 2014. His postgraduate work was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, and the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
• In April 2003, working with Swiss artist Etienne Delessert and Alice Myers, he created a series of wide-screen (30 X 60 foot) digital animations, for live performances by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra of Ravel's Ma mère l'Oye. They created an interactive DVD computer installation for an exhibit at the Visual Arts Museum at the School for Visual Arts in New York City, Fall 2003. His compositions appear on several CDs, including Look In, Jazz at the Rock, Volumes I-IV and in various multimedia productions.
• John also did the Lingo programming for Tabla: A Journey into Eastern Percussion, an instructional CD-ROM program exploring rhythmic techniques and form in the classical music of North India, (AIM Records, 2003) and for The Virtual Jury (1997), an online interactive role-playing program based on the circumstances of the Unabomber trial. In 1994, John was assistant sound designer and guitarist for Louis Cat Orze: The Mystery of the Queen's Necklace (an Interactive Adventure in the Court of Versailles), a CD-ROM program (IVI Publishing, Minneapolis, 1995).
• His current project; “Paintings in Song: Visions of Norman Rockwell” commissioned by Crescendo Chorus, scheduled for April 2017, is a nine-movement suite for 70 singers and instrumental ensemble, with each movement based on a single iconic Norman Rockwell paining spanning the 1920s-1960s.

Publications

• Look In (audio CD, Jungsoul, 2004) features his original jazz compositions and performances on guitar, clarinet, and electronic instruments.
• Way of the Pipa: Structure and Aesthetics in Chinese Lute Music, Kent State University Press (1992).
• Articles in Yinyue Yishu, Soundboard, Jazz Research Papers, College Music Society Newsletter, and other journals.
• Entries for the Asian-American Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, The Fifties in America, the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, and many others.